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Recent Examples of librettist
With the family’s slow but sure Act 2 revival, librettist Lindsey Ferrentino comes into her own.
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Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
The opera was written by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye and conceived in 2015 by Sgt.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Applicants who were previously selected for the workshop will present and receive feedback on the musical book and songs from their original musical from a panel of composers, producers and librettists.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
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Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
The opera was written by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye and conceived in 2015 by Sgt.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Applicants who were previously selected for the workshop will present and receive feedback on the musical book and songs from their original musical from a panel of composers, producers and librettists.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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The lyricist’s willingness to jump into the battle rap arena led to fans suggesting potential opponents, including battle rap veterans Murda Mook, Tay Roc, Geechi Gotti, and more.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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Anita Bryant, a popular singer who became known for opposition to gay rights, dies at 84 This rock band’s lyricist?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2025
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European salons were nobility inviting composers into their homes to write and play music.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Behind the camera, Skiba pulls triple duty, also serving as editor and composer.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Calvinist priest and poet John Mason evidently assigned a date in 1694 as the start of the true millennium.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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One such effort was led by Holocaust survivor, poet, and writer Abraham Sutzkever, who dedicated himself to preserving Yiddish language and culture.—
Natalia Romik / Madę by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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Mixing styles, synthesizer and organ tones, a Vocoder voice box and a prog-rock album’s worth of tempo changes, on both releases Hudson composes and plays as though his muse can barely contain all the ideas flowing out.—
Randall Roberts,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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The term muse originates from Greek mythology, where the Muses were nine goddesses who presided over various arts, sciences, and intellectual pursuits.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Jan. 2025
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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